Countdown to quit: thousands of US federal workers accept Musk’s ‘buyout’ offer
[South China Morning Post] - 02/5/2025
About 1 per cent of the US federal workforce have signed up for a deferred resignation deal as Thursday’s deadline fast approaches.
In Chinese newspapers
Hong Kong girl, 5, dies after suspected medical blunder involving stitches
Lai Sum-yuet dies in paediatric intensive care unit in Princess Margaret Hospital after suspected medical blunder (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Poll shows transgender Singaporeans still face work bias; complaints are ‘nuclear option’
Most transgender persons in Singapore have faced negative experiences in the workplace, according to the survey.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Alibaba’s updated Qwen AI model overtakes DeepSeek’s V3 in chatbot ranking
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen2.5-Max comes in seventh on Chatbot Arena, beating out DeepSeek-V3 in ninth place, but trailing (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Emilia Perez woes mount with Netflix said to end Oscars backing for star over online posts
Streaming giant said to distance itself from best actress nominee, Spain’s Karla Sofia Gascon, over her offensive (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Minitrue Plus Five: February 4, 2020 – Entertaining and “False” Content
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to (…)
[China Digital Times] - 5/02/2025
Donald Trump downplays China’s retaliatory tariffs and ‘in no rush’ to talk to Xi Jinping
‘We’re going to do very well against China and against everybody else,’ US president says after 10% tariffs hit (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 4/02/2025
Xiaomi’s HK$1 trillion market value, self-driving features in new Chinese cars: 5 EV reads
From Xiaomi’s market value surpassing HK$1 trillion to self-driving features in new Chinese cars, here are five EV (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
ByteDance’s new AI model goes viral for its deepfake capabilities that animate photos
Clips from the TikTok owner’s new OmniHuman-1 multimodal model have gone viral for their lifelike appearance and (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Ashes of actress Barbie ‘Big S’ Hsu sent back to Taiwan
Hsu’s sudden death caused by flu-triggered pneumonia shocked fans around the world.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Service disruptions on Hong Kong’s East Rail line easing as train fault fixed
MTR Corporation says faulty sensor on engineer’s train had to be fixed before it could be moved safely.
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025
Russians told not to panic over ‘gas cloud’ near Ukraine-hit plant
The gas was the result of work to restart the plant near Astrakhan, which has a population of about 475,000 people, (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 5/02/2025